Brown v. Wyman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Floyd Oi/rcwit Cov/rt. 'On the 15th day of February, 1876, Amos Pearsall entered into a written contract with Ira Wyman, for the sale to him of one hundred and sixty acres of land, at the price of $2,080, and the taxes for 1875, the contract providing for payment as follows: $200, November 1, 1877; $500, November 1, 1878, 1879 and 1880 respectively, and $380 November 1, 1881. The contract further provides that if Wyman shall pay the taxes of 1875 before April 1,…
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Appeal from Floyd Oi/rcwit Cov/rt. 'On the 15th day of February, 1876, Amos Pearsall entered into a written contract with Ira Wyman, for the sale to him of one hundred and sixty acres of land, at the price of $2,080, and the taxes for 1875, the contract providing for payment as follows: $200, November 1, 1877; $500, November 1, 1878, 1879 and 1880 respectively, and $380 November 1, 1881. The contract further provides that if Wyman shall pay the taxes of 1875 before April 1, 1876, and the taxes of succeeding years before they become delinquent, and break one hundred acres on or before July 10,…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
^mechanic's inéu’/upoi^6 land: breaking prairie, The court declared the lien for breaking a first lien upon the building, and a lien upon the land subject to the payment of the purchase-price. The appellant claims that breaking of prairie land is not an . . improvement on land, within the meaning of section 2130 of the Code, for which a mechanic’s lien can be established. Although this question is directly in the case, and, if determined adversely to the right to a lien, decisive of it, yet the appellee has paid no attention to the question in his argument. We regret the necessity of…
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